Just when I think a posted topic can’t get any more ridiculous or irrelevant something like this garbage comes along.

The whole point of the post was to allow Stephen to echo the homocon meme: “As the social justice warriors chant, “Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay! Make ‘Friends’ Go Away!” Not that the “social justice warriors” chant that, or even care about Friends, but it reinforces the Miloish message. And that is important.

Who cares?

Stephen cares. An entire generation thinks that fat jokes, fag jokes and ethnic jokes aren’t funny. Unless that can be nipped in the bud, the America he grew up in — I did, too — will be lost forever. Sad, huh?

Say, did you hear the one about the Irishman who came out of a bar? Don’t laugh — it could happen.

Stephen cares. An entire generation thinks that fat jokes, fag jokes and ethnic jokes aren’t funny. Unless that can be nipped in the bud, the America he grew up in — I did, too — will be lost forever. Sad, huh?

Quite.

I realized something today. You know the accusation that now that we’ve had a black president people should stop complaining about racism?

Well, we now have our first countercultural president. PCism is dead. We finally won. Quit complaining and get over your oppression complex, yeah!

Well, why not?

Because here’s what people don’t realize about the “first X president” thing. What happened once can happen again, at any time.

My daughter said ( while it was still in production) “Friends don’t let friends watch ‘Friends’.”

It’s generational.

My grandparent’s generation (born 1875-1880) didn’t see anything wrong with the raw racism and anti-Semitism in John Buchan novels. My parent’s generation (born 1915-1920) didn’t see anything wrong with Stepin Fetchit routines. My generation (born 1945-1950) didn’t see anything wrong with fat jokes, fag jokes and ethnic jokes, such as those on Friends.

Culture has moved on, what was once funny is now dated, and the younger generations (our kids and their kids), having grown up in a different environment, are on a different cultural page. It isn’t a progressive plot. It’s the way the world works.

Cool. We can add “Friends” to the list of things our parents liked that we think are stupid. Like napkins and Applebee’s.

That said? Never go back and watch a show that you thought was amazing from a decade or two ago. Your nostalgia won’t survive the experience. And getting upset that other folks that *have* recently watched it don’t share your enthusiasm is just stupid.

I’ve been lucky; most of the TV shows and movies I liked when I was a kid I can still watch today and get something positive out of. Maybe I was just a picky kid. But even then, the show offended me way beyond merely not being funny. Now I know why:

They’re right. The show is unfunny and stupid, and everyone I’ve ever known who liked it turned out to be an unfriendly jerk.

The studio that produced it, Warner Bros., also helped launch the career of anti-gay bigot Kirk Cameron on the almost-as-bad GROWING PAINS, but no one cares about that show anymore because Millennials don’t care about anything before 1990.

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